Professor Iracema Leroi is Director of the Global Brain Health Institute and Dublin and Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry, at Trinity College Dublin. She also serves as a consultant geriatric psychiatrist at St. James’ Hospital, Dublin. Trained in Canada and the United States, including in the neuropsychiatry program at Johns Hopkins University, she previously held the role of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. During her tenure there, she founded and led the Greater Manchester Dementia Clinical Trials Programme.
Currently, Professor Leroi leads the HRB-CTN Dementia Trials Ireland network and oversees a portfolio of drug and non-drug clinical trials for dementia at St. James’ Hospital. Her research focus centres on the mental health aspects of Lewy body diseases, exemplified by her leadership of the 4-year HRB-funded EMERALD Lewy program. This initiative aims to enhance the diagnosis and care of individuals with Lewy body dementia.
Professor Leroi was also the Chief Investigator of the EU-wide Horizon 2020 SENSE-Cog program (www.sense-cog.eu), which involved eight nations and 37 investigators. SENSE-Cog explored the intricate links between age-related hearing, vision, and cognitive impairments.